Kurt Elling - She's Funny That Way

While I worry, plane and scheme
Over what to do
I can’t help feeling it’s a dream
She’s just too good to be true

Whenever I’ve loved
It seems now so long ago, back in the past
It always seemed
Like love was the morning star, fading fast

Drowned out by noontime
In daylight’s trivial sky
Love was a mirage
That you could hold with your eye

But as you came upon it, it would dry up
Wondering, finally whether true love would come at all,
Watching each affair pass without a lasting word
Except ‘Goodbye’, taking the fall...
Counting sorrows like raidrops falling from above
Wanting, somehow, to find a love...
To share with me a shelter against the storms of living
Someone who was giving...
Kisses from her joy and not her/here fear

I have seen before
How sometimes people speak of love and think of pain.
The very thought strained all their insides out
So you could see fear was like a nail holding them to their past,
Keeping them distant from their futures, living in sadness,
Robbing every day of what could be - knowing it was madness,
I would leave them hungering for what they'd take,
But couldn't give at all.

It's rare in life you came as close to losing all your skin.
But now I've fallen in love
And an angel's fallen in there with me (in love).
She checked her wing in at the door.
Now, raindrops are diamonds falling out of Jennifer's pockets
And every kiss is July 4 rockets.
What was I thinking of?
Angels never fall in love with men like me.

But still, every morning I awake to find my angel's still asleep -
right there in my arms - and life is complete.
When she wakes, she smiles and whispers
That she's crazy living over me.
What am I to do but to thank the other angels above?

She's stuck with me.
I'll never let her go now.
With Jennifer I dig love
And she can dig it, too.
She's funny that way.